From last week’s visit to Dane Elec Memory in Irvine, I got to see the Meizu Mini Player, which may look like an iPod but… Well, it’s a video and music player, voice recorder, FM radio … Okay, it pretty much does nearly all the same stuff an iPod does though it doesn’t have direct access to iTunes.

It’s shaped like an iPod, has the white and silver case like the iPod and nearly the same size screen (iPod has a 2.5-inch diagonal while Meizu has 2.4-inch screen). But the Meizu is about 30 percent smaller. When it comes to storage though, the Meizu is only comparable to the petite iPod nano. The 2 GB Meizu is MSRP $120 and the 4 GB one is $149 (Walgreens.com has them), which makes them slightly cheaper than comparable iPod nanos, too.

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